It’s time again for David Hartwell’s annual roundup of what he considers to be the best science fiction of the year, collected from various sources. It’s a fairly impressive selection, boasting stories by Michael Swanwick, Terry Bisson, Nancy Kress, James Morrow, James Patrick Kelly, Gene Wolfe, and more. Many of the stories were first published in magazines such as Analog and Asimov’s, though a fair number first appeared in the original anthology, Redshift. This is indeed a collection of excellent stories, ones deserving of recognition, and it would serve well as a sampler for the genre.